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We develop a virtual cycle approach towards generalized Donaldson-Thomas theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds. Let $\mathcal{M}$ be the moduli stack of Gieseker semistable sheaves of fixed topological type on a Calabi-Yau threefold $W$. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Young-Hoon Kiem , Jun Li , Michail Savvas

We show that curve enumeration invariants of complex threefolds with nef anti-canonical bundle are determined by their values on local curves. This implies the MNOP conjecture of Maulik, Nekrasov, Okounkov, and Pandharipande relating…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-27 John Pardon

For any smooth complex projective surface $S$, we construct semistable refined Vafa-Witten invariants of $S$ which prove the main conjecture of arXiv:1810.00078. This is done by extending part of Joyce's universal wall-crossing formalism to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Henry Liu

We study the web of dualities relating various enumerative invariants, notably Gromov-Witten invariants and invariants that arise in topological gauge theory. In particular, we study Donaldson-Thomas gauge theory and its reductions to D=4…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Sergei Gukov , Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu , Artan Sheshmani , Shing-Tung Yau

Given any smooth germ of a threefold flopping contraction, we first give a combinatorial characterisation of which Gopakumar-Vafa (GV) invariants are non-zero, by prescribing multiplicities to the walls in the movable cone. On the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Navid Nabijou , Michael Wemyss

We prove the integrality and finiteness of open BPS invariants of toric Calabi-Yau 3-folds relative to Aganagic-Vafa outer branes, defined from open Gromov-Witten invariants by the Labastida-Mari\~no-Ooguri-Vafa formula. Specializing to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Song Yu

Two 3-fold flops are exhibited, both of which have precisely one flopping curve. One of the two flops is new, and is distinct from all known algebraic D4-flops. It is shown that the two flops are neither algebraically nor analytically…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Gavin Brown , Michael Wemyss

A difference equation is proved for the Gromov-Witten potential of the resolved conifold. Using the Gopakumar-Vafa resummation of the Gromov-Witten invariants of any Calabi-Yau threefold, it is further shown that similar difference…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Murad Alim

We propose a general theory of the Open Gromov-Witten invariant on Calabi-Yau three-folds. We introduce the moduli space of multi-curves and show how it leads to invariants. Our construction is based on an idea of Witten. In the special…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-02 Vito Iacovino

We compute Donaldson-Thomas(DT) invariants and their descendant invariants for the local Calabi-Yau 4-fold over the Mukai-Umemura variety via several localization formulas. Assuming that the genus-one Gopakumar-Vafa(GV) type invariants…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Kiryong Chung , Joonyeong Won

There is a strong analogy between compact, torsion-free $G_2$-manifolds $(X,\varphi,*\varphi)$ and Calabi-Yau 3-folds $(Y,J,g,\omega)$. We can also generalize $(X,\varphi,*\varphi)$ to 'tamed almost $G_2$-manifolds' $(X,\varphi,\psi)$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Dominic Joyce

We propose a combined mechanism to realize both winding inflation and de Sitter uplifts. We realize the necessary structure of competing terms in the scalar potential not via tuning the vacuum expectation values of the complex structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Federico Carta , Alessandro Mininno , Nicole Righi , Alexander Westphal

Supersymmetric D-branes supported on the complex two-dimensional base $S$ of the local Calabi-Yau threefold $K_S$ are described by semi-stable coherent sheaves on $S$. Under suitable conditions, the BPS indices counting these objects (known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Guillaume Beaujard , Jan Manschot , Boris Pioline

We call a projective Calabi-Yau (CY) 3-fold almost generic if it has only isolated nodes as singularities and the homology classes of all of the exceptional curves in an analytic small resolution are non-trivial but torsion. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 Thorsten Schimannek

We show that the non-commutative widths for flopping curves on smooth 3-folds introduced by Donovan-Wemyss are described by Katz's genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Yukinobu Toda

We propose localization techniques for computing Gromov-Witten invariants of maps from Riemann surfaces with boundaries into a Calabi-Yau, with the boundaries mapped to a Lagrangian submanifold. The computations can be expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Graber , Eric Zaslow

The generalized Donaldson-Thomas invariants counting one dimensional semistable sheaves on Calabi-Yau 3-folds are conjectured to satisfy a certain multiple cover formula. This conjecture is equivalent to Pandharipande-Thomas's strong…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Yukinobu Toda

Using the interpretation of certain generalised Donaldson-Thomas invariants, including stable pairs curve counts, as the monodromy of a flat connection on a formal principal bundle, we show that the conjectural Gopakumar-Vafa contributions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Jacopo Stoppa

The Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence claims that the Gromov-Witten invariant of the quintic Calabi-Yau 3-fold should be related to the Fan-Jarvis-Ruan-Witten invariant of the associated Landau-Ginzburg model via wall crossings. In…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Jinwon Choi , Young-Hoon Kiem

Degenerate contributions to higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of Calabi-Yau 3-folds are computed via Hodge integrals. The vanishing of contributions of covers of elliptic curves conjectured by Gopakumar and Vafa is proven. A formula for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 R. Pandharipande